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The screenplay af· "Svengali" is taken from Gerald du Maurier's 19th century novel, "Trilby" and much of the original melo- drama has been preserved.

It's a fantastic story even apart from Donald Wolff's fear. some playing of the dominan: part

Trilby is an artist's model living in Paris who comes under the hypnotic spell of Svengall- an eccentric, evil-minded teacher of singing, who is convinced he As a musical genius.

She has met him through

three English students, one of whom fall in love with her. Svengali, though obviously too far pore in sin to be capable of

the pure, Idealistic, (and to

judge from Billy's reactions,) painful emotion of love, has a strong feeling for her too, and the battle for the heart of the blonde beauty rages backwards and for

over her hrad, with sometimes a point ahead reserved and easily the

for

going on

shocked Billy (Terence Morgan) and at others the advantage going to the eye-rolling Svengali. While all is mental upheaval is on Svengali has

enough time left on his hands to hypactise Trilby into becoming a great singer. This is where dubbing comes in, as, although Hildegarde Neff's voice is good Chough for the Cole Porter S

"Silk Stockings" to is concert platform

the sound track.

William Holden

In A Quandary

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By JANE ROBERTS

Grace Kelly as she appears in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri".

moment.or

Was

under-

the romance

George Cole Again

playing up to repulsive Berliner -all with the purest intentions, of course when along comes Widmark with his rather juvenile and adaptable ideas of chivalry. Clump down the stairs

easy goes

boy friend and with him tumbles Mal's dream of escape from poverty with the children.

The film opens with an exec- Live contrast. The first shot after the bright clean associa- tions of the title is of a dredger bringing up sticky black mud.

A cry from. the operator focuses cur attention on the shovel as it opens to spill out its load. Gold bars hastily ipped into the river by fecing Naris are the catch, and the German operator rushes off to report his find to the Allied au- thorities.

▪.

A Pleasant Surprise

You can guess the plot now, naturally. Cole for gain and Widmark for love plan to pirate the aircraft carrying one of the loads back to England.

icss

If these two had been- sympathetic characters the in- terest would have ended here. You'd assume that after almost getting away with it they'd have been caught and probably kill

Well you've a pleasant sur- "prise

im store there's much more to it than that. Three more

introduced players are inte the plat at

this

poin Nigel Patrick as a suavely un- dio pleasant pilo: willing to

a price, a British anything for counterpart of Mar's olly black marketeer is good characterisa

and

greed for

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Jose FERRER •

Merle OBERON •

slow-witted

Although far-fetched, this action

combined.

picture has

with good studies from some of the lesser characters. This is Wid- reflection en Richard mark, the star.

no

libre.

So when Miss Neft

I to be singing Brahm's evening over a glass of gin he wonder what Stevenson appears to

Cradie Song" and Schubert's could be permitted a would have thought of the pre- "Ave Maria" it will be the world

30 of introspec- 1 day hero (Tab Hunter) who fainous tones of Elizabeth tion to, wander what It helps her fight off the inevitable "SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS" Schwartzkopf that come over on

all about, but hardly villains, provides in the middle of important naval, that Jim Hawkins was too tion this-he's made his pile, operations.

young to be entitled to and refuses to come in on

on the plan Perhaps it would have made assists her to carry off the treat the start in case it hazards a better picture if the roles at sure in the last reel.

his newly-bought respectability finally overcome by these two had been reversed.

final haul) and Grace Kelly doesn't have much more to do than look like.

garage-owner; a charming young wife, modest and quiet. loving and

giris. William Holden in The standing her husband and twe Bridges at Toko-Ri" seems 'There's a suggestion of the as puzzled by his preser.ce nid bouncy Mickey Rooney in

"A Prize of Gold" · takes a helicopter the film

portrayal of Fredric 28

pilot, efficient at his job but al- us first on a conducted March, as his commanding ways ready for girls or scraps of post-war Berlin officer, is by the necessity of Cocksure and confideal, this is a sending nice young men out stock character for Rooney, and Richard Widmark as

conductor. ho plays it with assurance, on dangerous missions.

It's the photography that "Both of these are disturbing, really steals the picture, We're used to seeing William cemeras recording the bombing over the Toko-Bi bridges Holden calch hold of a role nurs after obviously having turned place on the screen a more tell-

Justification for cut to

examine the 'ing meaning and purpose behind it Brubaker's fears and his couT- and then interpret it in his own age in the face of them than all William Holden's anxieties of gifted manner.

..mind, expressed and intimated.

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This may be a very subtle way

of handling the" personality of

a mentally. disturbed young

his

The

Variation On A

His is a role that he's played GILCOY before and one which tour his fans like to see him in. It with he branches out into real acting the it won't be via a film of this

sype.

Mai Zetterling's unusual He's an American military koks seem

to appeal for a

pert mealy

than she's atlached to the more policeman American Air Force-3 very been given here' and instead of established Ameri- supporting ordinary young man, chlidishly pleased at being able to show can stars she should be given a herself his comdartably furnished chance to re-introduce

in her own right. apartment to his less well-paid British buddy, George Cole.

of

This is a different role again. for chameleon-like George. "Spit is his nickname in "A Prize of Gold", but it's not the

comic-strip sharple that he

family man suddenly recalled Stevenson Theme played in "The Belles of

from his peacetime law practice

to the danger of a war being fought in a foreign country by alien people,

problem.

war-weary,

and

St

Merry-Go-Round Of Music

Trinian's", but a much more "Deep in My Heart" dangerous and insidious type, takes you on. a musical

Apparently as ordinary as the

as

a military

Both Cole abd Widmark are

ever wrote is

over.

but it doesn't I'm not sure whether make us very interested in his Dawn Addams made "Re- as yet uncompromised Widmark merry-go-round through the

when we first meet him, he life of Sigmund Romberg. -turn to Treasure Island”

uses his job Then there's the picture of a before or after her much policeman to engage in small

Pretty well every song he commanding officer who has

included, wit reached the lop through many publicised marriage to the Bddling-though, as he hastens

to assure his American friend, early the whole show-case of years of hard service and dif- Italian Prince Massimo, 90 he's got the connections for

MGM's musical stars making ficult decisions, appearing in I am not certain whether much bigger job.

guest appearances to put them determinate,

And when Rosemary Clooney. almost obsessed by the personal this was meant to be a step

forward in her artistic likable characters, but while Gene Kelly or Cyd Charisse problems of his officers.

is she Cole

without conscience, aren't there. there's always the It's difficult to believe in this career in order that

Widmark is weak. a bit of a conception of a successful com could, with a blaze of trum show-off, and a pushover for a ebullient Helos 'Traubel to talve

stage mander. The higher a man pro pets, proclaim her renuncia pretty girl with

a sob story Jose Ferrer plays Romberg gresses the more his respons!-

a lot of war orphane to and it's interesting to contrast his bilities

grow, and the morbid tion of art in favour of do- and

look after like Mai Zetterling. happy performance in this with preoccupation with the logic of mesticity,

In order to get herself and the bitter, disillusioned lawyer the children to Brazil, Mai is of "The Caine Mutiny".

war and the disrupted lives it In it she is a relative of causes should have no place Stevenson's Jim Hawkins and in the busy day of the type of is in possession of a map show. mar Fredric March plays. ing the location of the buried Possibly in the quiet of the loot of Treasure Island.

"

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Deep In My Heart". A big-sesie musical based on the life of Sigmund Romberg. Jose Ferrer. Helen Traubel and Merle Oberon plus many guest stars.

the

Around Hollywood

by Michael Ruddy

Donald, rather serious in real lite. "I'm fugitive from Francis," he says. "I hope to spend a month or so in Britain this summer. I would like to visit Glasgow again. Well, I ought to. I'm a Freeman of the City sir. And I want to motor -right word?-through the was countryside and do the inns, just asked for some advice about as Sir Arthur Morse of the acting during a brief interlude British Travel Association sug- in "The Ten Commandments" at gests." Paramount, where the Red Sea

Sir Cedric Hardwicke

Donald

is now being created ready for

KING'S PRINCESS and EMPIRE: "The Bridges at Toko- RI". The human side of naval flying during the Korean war with some good action sequences added. William Holden, Grace Kelly and Fredric March. LEE: "Svengali". Hypnotism and heavy drama.

Wollit, Hildegarde Neff and Terence Morgan. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Return to Treasure

Island".

Another sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's story, with the Jim Hawkins role taken by a giri. Dawn Addamas and Tab Hunter.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMERA: “A Frize of Gold". An air- craft carrying gold from Berlin to London is pirated by a gang of assorted charsclers, some weak, some wicked. Richard Widmark, George Cole and Mal Zetterling. ROXY and BROADWAY: "A Man Called Peter". The life and 'work of The Rev. Peter Marshall as told by his wife, Richard Todd and Jean Peters.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Billy the Kid". A western re-

Issue. Robert Taylor.

KING'S and PRINCESS: . "Man Without a Star". A western in which the hero. rides into town, rights its wrONLE and rides on. Kirk Douglas, William Campbell and Jean Crain.

"Poison Ivy

LEE: "Jesse James vs The Daltons", A western in which the supposed son of Jesse James tries to trace his father. Brett King and Barbara Lawrence.

A Feter Cheyney thriller in French with English sub-titlex Eddie Constantine, Vatns NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Eternal Sea”. · A display of moral and physlusă courage from a US Naval commander. Sterling Hayden and Alexis Smith. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Parfi Follles”. A musical

based on the revue.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Camilie”. In Chinese with Li

LiHwa

"Daddy Longlegs". A re-make of the old Janet Gaynor picture with Leslie Caron taking her role, and Fred Astaire and Fredric March

Also

at the luncheon were the Crossing by De Mille's Mitzi Gaynor, hitting her stride Children

of Israel, "G. B.

and dancer, as a comedienne Shaw had this to say," replied and Jeannemaire, a pixle who Sir Cedric. "Look after the smiles when she doesn't know part. The billing and the money"'ow you say eet" in English. will look after themselves."

The studio production chief, Take the cash and let the Don Hartman, came

in for "credit go? Not in Hollywood; some rubbing when he rose to say a few words. He took it In 1837, a 13-year-old singer well, even when Bing called dancer had a wonderful oppor- out, "Lock at the time.

We've tunity to show his stuff in "Sing, got to get the hell back to the You Sinners

at Paramount set. I've got a piece of the ple Studios. He was featured in a

a ture." rollicking number, titled "Smail Fry with Bing Crosby and Fred Stewart Granger, the Great MacMurray, Last week, we saw White Hunter, will have this number again with Bing Roman holiday on his next and Fred and the boy. Bing film, "The Last Hunter," with looks older, so does Fred, and Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan, so does the boy. The boy? who's just completed a run of Donald O'Connor, now co-star- 650 Performances 'in The ring with Bing in "Anything Caine Mutiny Cour. Martial" Goes."

500th

Dakota will be the locale for the cinema "safari,

Sir Arthur's Advice with Buffalo (actually bison)

herds as the game.

a

Then we were shown, in

In France July, Kirk rough form, a sequence from Douglas and Anthony Quinn Do. "Anything Goes with Bing and recreate the roles of Van Gogh Donald. In it are all the classic and Gauguity in "Lust for Life,” music-hall" gnga of the great And Lilian Gish marks br comics. It's uproariously funny. 50th andycrsity as an

actress Afterwards at lunch. In the with

release of "The private dining-room, as queste Cobweby a cheerful yarmı set of Bing, we chatted with in a mental bone,

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